1 Day Hop-On Hop-Off Tour Plus Night Tour

Experience the best of San Francisco with a 1-Day Hop-On Hop-Off Tour. Explore the city at your own pace, visit major sites like the Golden Gate Bridge and Fisherman’s Wharf, and enjoy a night tour. Get your value ticket now!

Duration: 1 hour
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights

Experience a fully guided, one-hour downtown tour of San Francisco’s most renowned landmarks on an authentic open-top Double Decker Bus in the heart of the city. Highlights of the tour include: Fisherman’s Wharf with its vibrant waterfront and famous sea lions, Union Square’s shopping paradise, Chinatown, North Beach with the winding Lombard Street, Ferry Building, the Farmers Market, Embarcadero, Financial District, and the iconic Pier 39.

Your ticket also grants access to a city tour showcasing San Francisco’s most iconic sites – the Golden Gate Bridge, Golden Gate Park, Union Square, Civic Center, and much more! This segment of your hop-on, hop-off adventure departs from Fisherman’s Wharf, passing through Ghirardelli Square, the Palace of Fine Arts, and the Marina District, before reaching the legendary Golden Gate Bridge. At North Vista Point, you can disembark to walk across the 1.7-mile span of the bridge.

The tour continues into Golden Gate Park, one of the world’s largest man-made sanctuaries, spanning over 50 city blocks and featuring 10 lakes, making it a must-see in San Francisco. With multiple stops throughout the park, you can explore the California Academy of Sciences, the De Young Museum, the Japanese Tea Garden, or the Botanical Gardens. As the tour proceeds through Haight Ashbury, you’ll experience the famed “Hippie District,” before heading to the Civic Center area, home to many architectural landmarks such as the impressive City Hall, the Opera House, Symphony Hall, the Asian Museum of Art, and the public library. From there, the tour moves to San Francisco’s central shopping district – Union Square, where you can find Macy’s Department Store and numerous other major department stores and high-end retailers. After approximately two hours, the tour returns to Fisherman’s Wharf, stopping at various waterfront locations, including Pier 39 with its world-famous sea lions, as well as restaurants, shopping venues, and numerous attractions for more fun in San Francisco.

Points of Interest

  • Pier 39

  • Fisherman’s Wharf

  • Ferry Building Marketplace

  • Ghirardelli Square

  • Embarcadero Center

  • Russian Hill

  • Asian Art Museum

  • Nob Hill

  • Union Square

  • Grace Cathedral

  • Civic Center

  • Chinatown

  • Golden Gate Bridge

  • San Francisco Bay Bridge

  • Lombard Street

  • Treasure Island

  • South San Francisco Conference Center

  • California Academy of Sciences

  • The Embarcadero

  • de Young Museum

  • Japanese Tea Garden

  • San Francisco City Hall

  • Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall

  • War Memorial Opera House

  • Golden Gate Park

  • Heart of the City Farmers’ Market

  • Palace of Fine Arts Theatre

What's Included
  • San Francisco Night Tour (if option was selected)
  • 1 Day Hop-On Hop-Off City Tour
What's Not Included
  • Tips and gratuity
  • Food and beverages
Additional Information

1-Day PLUS Pass includes Hop On Hop Off City Tour (2 hour loop) + San Francisco Night Tour (1 hour) on one value ticket (BEST DEAL!)

Unlimited hop-on hop-off usage for 1 Day.

16 Stops along the way.

See all major sites of San Francisco.

Explore the city at your own leisure.

Major Highlights: Downtown San Francisco, Fisherman’s Wharf, the world famous Golden Gate Bridge, Golden Gate Park and much more.

  • Children under 2 years of age are free
  • This bus tour is first come first serve
Location
99 Jefferson St
Jefferson Street
(at the corner of Mason Street)
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Y9011ehadrianas
Sep 19, 2022
It was an awesome trip covered many places in San Francisco 🌉 - Awesome trip goes to a lot of places and is a fun ride It has earphones and they explain the places where we go to
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Amandalj524iu
Jul 31, 2022
Brilliant - This is one of the best hop on hop off tours I've done. We've used the big bus company in other cities, and this was fantastic. We were able to see everything San Francisco has to over, including going over the Golden Gate Bridge, Lombard Street, Fisherman's Wharf and so much more. Our ticket also included a evening tour, which took us over the Oakland Bay Bridge, which is equally stunning in it's own right, and gave us beautiful views of downtown San Francisco. We would highly recommend this tour.
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Coym2022
Jan 8, 2022
Great - It was a great experience all the way around. Only thing was the fog but that is mother nature's fault.
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Walt_f
Aug 12, 2021
A Hop-on, Hop-off day in San Francisco - Very enjoyable! Lots of fun & interesting architectural, historical & just fun facts. Stops at all the locations that you’ll want!
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321teddy
Jun 29, 2019
Tour guide - Our guide was great and had a great sense of humor he was crazy about the street lights but I can’t remember his name but great guide
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Rick
Nov 5, 2018
Vacation of a lifetime. - Susann was the best guide and so helpful for all our questions. The tour is a great way to see San Francisco and all it’s glory. We went to Alcatraz Island and was very impressed with the experience. It was a great vacation for us.
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Zuleika_r
Oct 1, 2021
All talk, no action - Your web site gave wrong time for boarding the Big Bus. Caused a lot of stress. Calling you gave us an extremely talkative rep which wasted our phone batteries and provided no help
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Joe_k
Mar 12, 2020
Great tour, unless you get left at a stop for too long. - The representative from Viator was most helpful in giving us directions to the start of the tour and where to park once we got there. Excellent service. The tour was good, but we got stranded at the south point of the Golden Gate Bridge for about an hour. Should have been a 15 to 20 wait, but no buses appeared. We called the tour company and were kept on hold for 26 minutes, so that is not a recourse when looking to be picked up. Finally, they came and took us to the north point and we have to wait 25 minutes to get back on the bus to the city tour. From that point on, I did not enjoy the tour. Up until that point, it was good.
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Escape691850
Aug 8, 2019
Good sight-seeing, poor communication. - Loved seeing city & its neighborhoods by Big Bus. However, wish they gave more accurate addresses for pickup locations. I went to Haight/Strayan stop. Had to ask a Bike Rental person there to find that the stop was actually a block away under a pizza sign! Last tours left at 5pm--too early for summertime.
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Danielle_f
Jun 26, 2020
Terrible - Tour was closed. I paid $40 in Uber fees for get there and find out the location is close. Bars on door and no one answering the phone
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